Animal Lives Matter provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal philosophical and ethical aspects of animal rights. It argues that the subject extends beyond the matter of our obligations towards animals to include our wider responsibilities for protecting the environment. Drawing on numerous moral political legal religious and philosophical theories including utilitarianism deontology rights theory social contractarianism and the capabilities approach the author meticulously examines the questions of sentience speciesism personhood and human exceptionalism. Lucid nuanced and academically rigorous this important book will be an essential resource for scholars of law politics philosophy ethics as well as policy makers and the general reader. |Animal Lives Matter The Continuing Quest for Justice